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New thread time ladies

http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/forums/ind...howtopic=716364

[MnM]

Ill claim Gold

[beck73]

OOH, SILVER for me then! Yippee!!! Will BBL for a proper post, it's been a while so I need to make sure all the beasts - I mean, my darling children - are settled for a bit so I can concentrate .

Beck x

This post has been edited by beck73: 11/01/2010, 09:26 AM

[~tinkerbell~]

Oh Bronze.....



Showing off pictures, here is our family santa shot from last year.

ANGE - Simone is gorgeous. How are Lachy and Natalie doing with her? I bet they are just over the moon.

MANDY - Greta is beautiful too. Wow all these gorgeous little girls. Did anyone have a boy to add to the brood...lol.

FEE - Congratulations, that is fantastic news. Was it planned or just a massive happy surprise?

KAT - Congratulations on the birth of your little girl Fiala. Look forward to seeing photos too.

BECK - Any new photos of your little girl. How are the boys adjusting to a little girl in the house. At least you have another girl to back you up against all those boys....hehehe.

Ben came home on Saturday, and was so excited. It will take a week to calm him down and get him back on track. He has some choice swear words coming out of his mouth at the moment, which I am not impressed about at all. And he seems to look different. Not sure why, but he just looks like he has changed.

XH is still mucking around. He keeps changing his mind. He has gone from happy for me and the kids to live here in Perth, to wanting Bennett, and not Delia, and has now changed his mind again and is wanting 50/50 shared care, and me to go back to Port Macquarie. We had a conciliation conference in November in regards to the money, but he is not willing to budge on that either. So we are heading to trial, which the courts have told us could be up to 5 days, because what he wants and what I am asking for are so far apart. The courts forced him over in July 09, as he hadn't seen either of the children since April 08. XH had told me that he will not be coming back to Perth at all. So as you can see, he is still being very unreasonable, and not really thinking of the children, but the courts, mediators, and concellors are all seeing this. He is still representing himself too.

Delia is growing up so fast. Her little personality is just so beautiful. I will post a picture of her from Christmas time. She is just so cheeky and has my DF wrapped around her little finger. She just loves DF so much, and missed Ben heaps too. She loves her step brothers and sisters too, and is the light of all our eyes. Her hair is so beautiful and getting longer, but is still quite thinish. I am not willing to cut it yet though, my stubborn streak wont let me....lol.

Anyway girls lovely to catch up. Will try and be more regular.

[Shadowess]

Congrats Kat! That's fantastic news! Can't wait to hear her name.... although I do have admit to a blonde moment, when I thought her first name was Fiala, and was thinking "hmmm... unusual choice!" luckily you pointed out that she hadn't been named yet, Beck! I think I may already be suffering from prego-brain...

Yvette, lovely pic, you all look so happy! We also had to have a family photo with Santa... maybe next year will be different! This baby was planned, so we're very excited.. not that we wouldn't be, if it was a surprise!

Mandy, Beck and Ange, your babies are all gorgeous!

Anyway, been to the GP today, and have been for blood work etc... can't get in to my OB til April, so I'll just be seeing my GP til then. All good though!

Well, better do something about dinner I suppose.. hopeing to get to the pool when DH gets home.

fee

[MnM]

Awww that's a lovely piccie Yvette , you looks so happy - and thin! Hope you get things with your ex sorted soon, hopefully the courts will see he hasn't had much to do with the kids so won't make you move back to NSW. Rachel (Dixie lee) had a baby boy, the rest of us had girls.

Fee: wow April! That's a way off yet... Well hope all is ok. Exciting hey! Nothing like newborn cuddles, I'm loving them

well miles was super excited to go back to daycare today, he goes on Monday now. I've been trying to find a mums group for miles to join, he loves being with other kids and now I've reduced his day care days... Well I found one to begin next month, can't wsit.

Ok best get dinner served up

[~tinkerbell~]

Thanks girls. We did the whole family santa thing, as it was the first time we had all of us together. YEAH. And Connor and Delia didn't like Santa so it made it easier for us to all be in it. I liked it, so might keep doing it as a family tradition.

MANDY - Thanks for the thin comment. I lost a total of 13kgs last year. I only have another 12kgs to get down to the weight I am hoping for.

[MnM]

Hi thought I'd come bump us up a little bit.

Kat: congrats again and welcome baby Matilda

us: well I'm on a weight loss/fitness kick! I'm on week one and I've lost 2kg's so far, wanna loose another 10 before we go back to the UK in July.
Gym 3 days a week and eating healthy, all ok so far!

Other news, we bought a new house! Decided we wanted a 4th bedroom and a pool.. We signed contracts last night, it's in Kenthurst for any Sydney siders, about 7 or 8 minutes from our current house (which we still have to sell!) so still really close to Miles' day care & mums group etc... But it's just a couple minutes to the school we want the kids to go to so that's good.

MIL arrives in 3 days, here for 3 months

Greta's great... She sleeps for 12 hours overnight and has a couple of 3 or 4 hour naps a day.. She's so happy DH has been talking about us having a third but I think we would be crazy to tempt fate - what's the chance of us having 3 easy babies!!! I'll stick with 2 thanks

well best go, got someone coming to take pics of the house in an hour and Miles wants a snack or something he's trying to drag me to the fridge!

Hi to everyone, Fee hope the pregnancy is going well.

[~tinkerbell~]

Hi girls,

I know there is not alot of traffic in here now, but wanted to ask you...Have you started TT yet? If so, how are you going? If not, is there any reason?

Delia shows some interest in her potty, but is scared of the toilet. I think this is because she has fallen in . However when we put her in undies, she just doesn't seem to know when she is needing to go, and has accident after accident. So not sure whether I should try just yet, or wait alittle bit longer. What do you think?

MANDY - I start boxing tonight, and I am so excited. I can't wait to get in there and hit something. Might help with some other issues too.....

Hi to everyone else.

[twogirlsandaboy]

Been a while since I last posted so thought I should do a proper post .

Fee, Congratulations on your BFP that's wonderful news.

Mandy, Yay to buying a new house and of course your new car. My mum's dream car has always been an MG as well in British racing green (she was born in Britain as well ). Sounds like you are going great at gym.

Yvette, Love the pic and I agree you do look a lot slimmer, well done on the weight loss.

to Beck, Laura and anyone else I missed (too lazy to go back to the previous thread ). Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Congratulations on all the new arrivals, maybe Fee you might have a boy this time to even up the numbers .

Us, all good here, although I am glad school starts again on Wednesday. The 2 girls together are pretty good, but add a boy into that or a boy and a girl together and it's painful. Luke had a sleepover at my mum and dad's Monday and Tuesday and it was so nice and quiet, no arguing, fighting, answering back.

I have been sort of TT Emma but I don't know if she really gets it either. She loves to wear undies, will sit on the toilet (with an insert so she doesn't fall in), she knows (and can say) all the words - wee, poo, toilet and knows that everyone else goes to the toilet, but we haven't had many successful attempts (3 wees on the toilet in the last 5 days). I think the main problem is she can hold on for literally hours. One day I had her in undies from about 8am and she didn't wet her pants (or do anything on the toilet) until she went outside at about 6.30pm and then wet her undies then. Annaliese was a nightmare when I started her at about 2.5 which is why I left Luke until just after he turned 3, but I can't decide with Emma if I should leave her or keep going .

Getting our tax done tomorrow (last year's, we always get it done around this time of year, although last year was closer to April). Also pretty much decided that we are going to sell the 180 acre block of land we bought a few years ago. Our main winery has cut us back quite a bit this year (our 10 year contract expired after the 2008 vintage and they were going to give us another 5 year contract but after the 2009 vintage they said it had all changed and we weren't getting a new contract and they weren't taking as much. I (and DH) was pretty p*ssed about that, kind of felt like thanks for your loyalty (20+ years with supplying them), but just about P.O. ), so we have about 50-60 tonnes of grapes we haven't sold this year yet. If we sell the block that will save us around $50K a year in loan and interest repayments as DH really wants to buy a new tractor this year as well (can't afford to pay for both now) and doesn't have the time to put the work into the block that it needs.

Meant to be 40 degrees here today, fantastic - not. Although meant to be around 27 tomorrow I think, so DH should be able to get some more reaping done tomorrow as well. He's not doing any today - too hot and windy in case the header started a fire. I've been busy making hair bows and headbands (if anyone wants the link to have a peek at what I make let me know ), just need DH to hang all my ribbons up for me so I don't have to go digging through my tubs looking for the ribbons I need.

Anyway, best be off, DH is home for lunch so will see if he can hang my ribbons for me after he's finished, seeing as it's too hot to do anything outside. I also want him to finish off the retaining wall out the front. We did one side about 4 or 5 years ago, and I have been waiting that long for him to get started on the other side . He said if I dug the trench for the wall, then he would start some of the wall, so I dug the trench on Sunday, just waiting for him to hold up his end of the bargain now .

Hope everyone is going well, have a great day and stay cool (if it's hot where you are ) .